[EDITORIAL NOTE ON MANUSCRIPT:] 
A certain collection written in an unknown hand but concluded with: "Long live the Russian revolution! Long live...". On another quarter-page of the reverse side of a half-sheet Lenin repeated the first slogan and completed the second; he dated it and signed it (see printed in bold type).

**J 872.**

## TO THE REPORT ON THE CURRENT MOMENT AT THE PETROGRAD CITY-WIDE CONFERENCE OF THE RSDLP(B)

April 15[/27], 1917*

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**PRELIMINARY NOTES:**

**Presiding:** R. e. P[oletaev] — on bourgeois 
democracy 
"[state of] democracy", become of d[emocratic] and s[ocialist] 
[state]" 
??)

Role of b[ourgeoisie] "overestimated" 
"[B]ourgeois d[emocracy m]ay [be]" 
in Russia 
only (??) s[ocialist] d[emocracy]".

**NB:**
Both landowners of Chernigov guberniya for n[ational]
iz[ation] of all land, and p[easant]
b[ourgeoisie], under pressure [from the] p[eople], perhaps may refuse
from a[nnexationist] p[olic]y: immanent n[ecessi]ty there is not.
Contradictions can be overcome by d[emocratic] [means].

Shustkii ... 
"Org[aniz]e a r[e]v[olution]ary 
d[emocratic] d[ictat]ure of the proletariat and p[easant]ry" 
??) 
"to restrict 
oneself from st[ate]-c[ommune]", because that — rule [of the] p[roletariat], and we have 
d[ictat]ure of pr[oletariat] and p[easant]ry"__

**Kosior:** "Concentration of all power in the hands of pr[oletariat] and d[emocratic] [means] (??)
How strong is the r[ural] p[roletariat]:
L[enin] did not answer!!

See "Protocols of the Petrograd City-wide and All-Russian 
Conferences of the RSDLP (Bolsheviks) in April 1917". Giz. 1925. Ed.

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## TO THE REPORT ON THE CURRENT MOMENT

Listening: at L[enin]'s "[R]evolution[ary] pr[acti]
c[ism]", struggle with phrase
..."In a short time the b[ourgeois] character of the r[evolution] is exhausted"...
[In Rashin] ..."Ref[erendum] and plebiscite — this is where Russia is heading"!||??

B[ourgeoisie] could reproach L[enin] with o[pportunism]...
= R[efer]en[dum] ???
"[The] overthrow of c[apital] he had in his theses, but 
II: was not in his speech"......

We m[ust] d[emand] that the g[overnment] 
refuse annexations, but not d[emand] to the g[overnment], but to the r[evolution]ary [p]eople" (NB)

on banks (??? nil) ... "Int[ernation]al institution" (? nil?).

**Yakovlev:** ... "R[evolution]ary p[roletariat] is spinning in place"__

**Naumov:** (Vyb[org] district): 
What is to be done? Where to turn?
(whom to demand from, where to 
turn?... 
and the Masses

NB ||| must [be] set on something__

How to stop the w[ar]? Something is lacking, they do not understand.
Th[ere] lacks practice (in L[enin]) ----
"The masses do not give [us] work"__

**Safarov:** "Liberal pacifism"___

**Letrikovskii:** 
"[carry out] cultural[-education]al 
work"...

Would the m[asses] follow the S[oviet of] W[orkers' and] S[oldiers'] D[eputies] 
without contact with the T[emporary] G[overnment]?

**Presedko:** Disarmament! or s[ocialist] r[evolution]? I do not know. In Europe [it is] closer to disarmament. In Europe — 
s[ocialism], we have it not.

One cannot replace local organs of self-government: with S[oviets]!!

There is no sense in separating p[easant] and s[oldier] 
d[eputies]. There is no reason.

Indefinite — Commune. A poor example.

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**KALININ:**
I am an old b[olshevi]k. Old f[orm]s 
of bolshevism are not an obstacle... I am a conservative.
With L[enin] there is not the slightest departure from the old b[olshevi]sm.
Spontaneous procedure — an old truth----
He has analysis, but not method, not approach.........

**Sergei*:** Three old pil[lars]
\new\ 
\refusal from annexations
\+ laying [of] expen[ses] on capitalists
\-r[evolutionary] d[emocratic] d[ictat]ure "on the whole" this thing is i m p o s s i b l e. But how to do it so that 
wholly? That is the whole question.
(Difference between L[enin] and Trotsky?)

The root of things is not in the unconsciousness of the masses and in insufficient org[anization], but in the inevitability of defensism.

Is it possible to complete a b[ourgeois]-d[emocratic] r[evolution] as 
we considered it before? No.

What would it (the S[oviet of] W[orkers' and] D[eputies])
begin to do, being in power?

S[ocialist] o[verthrow]? No.
Commune?

"No radical[-democratic] party in order to demand"

**Antonina**: T[emporary] G[overnment]=b[ourgeoisie]+
p[art] of l[andowners].

P[easant]ry is held to the T[emporary] G[overnment] not only by illusions, but also by fear of the r[ural] p[roletariat].

**Ivanov:** ___ ("all bolsheviks of all countries" ___

**Filipp***:

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**b.**

## PLAN OF THE CONCLUDING REMARKS.

Old b[olshevi]sm: Presedko and Kalinin.
L[ocal] self-government and C[onstituent] A[ssembly] 
("Commune").

*Ol'gatiev.
** Not adopted.
*** Goloshchekin. Ed.